Moscow and Washington interpret the Geneva agreements on the settlement of the situation in Syria differently, the Chairman of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Alexei Pushkov, has said.
­”A war of interpretation broke out after the agreement on political transformation in Syria was signed in Geneva,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is convinced the agreement makes it clear to the current Syrian leadership that it must go, he said.
”Moscow, by contrast, said the agreement does not say a word about Assad’s resignation and that he is not mentioned at all in it,” the Russian lawmaker said.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed the Russian view that the final document of the Geneva conference on Syria does not call for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Washington, London and Paris have been fuelling covert state terrorism against Syria and its ally Iran with proxy mercenaries wreaking havoc in both countries. No-warning car bombs in Damascus are the vile counterpart to assassination of nuclear scientists in Tehran.
So it is with utter contempt that these same powers should engage in a so-called peace summit convened at the weekend by the United Nations in Geneva. A crisis meeting on a crisis created by Western powers and their regional allies, Turkey, Israel and the Arab dictatorships of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The duplicity is rank.
However, what of the other permanent members of the Security Council, Russia and China, who were also prominent players at the Geneva gathering?